The VERBO [VERB] annual exhibition of performance is a festivaldedicated to the presentation of actions in the area of performanceby artists from Brazil and the rest of the world. An initiative that be-gan in 2005 with the aim of creating a network of artists and otherindividuals linked to performance, VERBO is now in its sixth edition,once again produced in partnership with the Centro Cultural SãoPaulo.VERBO 2010 takes as its main axis the word, whether written orspoken. This theme was not chosen randomly, but rather based onthe more than 200 projects received for selection, from the monthsof December 2009 to March 2010. From these, 11 actions were cho-sen which, together with the 16 invited projects, make up this 6thedition of VERBO.There are distinct ways to understand performance, just as thereare different manners of making use of it. It is noteworthy that voiceand writing appeared in so many projects not only as a support, butas a thematic structure for the action. This fact suggests a responsefrom the artist to current questions, and can be pointed to as a basisfor reection proposed by VERBO 2010.The word that drives most of the 27 actions of VERBO 2010 nds anecho in this publication, which includes descriptions of the actionsin the original language sent by the artists, bilingual transcriptions[Portuguese and English] of ve texts presented in the 2009 editionof the VERBO Conjugado [Conjugated VERB] seminar, held at theCentro Cultural São Paulo, and by the program for the exhibitionitself.Each new edition of VERBO demands that the people involved in itsrealization take a new look at the condition of performance in today’sart. The actions that make up VERBO 2010 suggest the need for arevaluation of our forms of dialog and of communication in general,in the sense of demarcating, re-signifying and communicating thepotentials of this practice in the art of our time.